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package org.springframework.cloud.contract.spec;

/**
 * Defines how to read converted contracts from a byte array representation back to
 * contracts.
 *
 * @param <T> contracts type
 * @author Marcin Grzejszczak
 * @since 3.0.0
 */
public interface ContractReader<T> {

	/**
	 * Reads contracts from bytes.
	 * @param bytes - byte representation of contracts
	 * @return contracts
	 */
	default T read(byte[] bytes) {
		throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Can't read contract from bytes");
	}

}
